{"id":74,"date":"2019-01-15T21:03:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/wiproteacherfellow\/?p=74"},"modified":"2019-01-15T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T21:03:40","slug":"getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/wiproteacherfellow\/getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting started"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We&#8217;re looking forward to getting started with the Wipro programme in a few days.\u00a0 We have over twenty teachers &#8211; fellows and mentors &#8211; joining the first cohort from schools in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Derbyshire, who teach science, mathematics and computer science.<\/div>\n<div>The project team has been super-busy planning all the sessions, Alison has been sharing the aims and intentions of the programme with schools across the region, Jo is working on the evaluation plan and data collection, Linda has been supporting with booking rooms and catering.\u00a0 We can&#8217;t wait to get started!\u00a0 The programme is looking fantastic, built around our principles of collaboration, innovation, enquiry and trust, and drawing in expertise from the team working alongside partners from schools and other colleagues.\u00a0\u00a0To learn more about the programme and the programme team, have a look around this site and follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeacherFellow\">@teacherfellow<\/a>.\u00a0 As a small example of our other work on teacher professional development, I just wrote an article for the Royal Society of Chemistry about characteristics of effective professional development: what they tell us &#8211; and what they don&#8217;t &#8211; about professional learning. You can find it <a href=\"https:\/\/eic.rsc.org\/feature\/creating-an-effective-web-of-professional-development\/3009957.article\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re looking forward to getting started with the Wipro programme in a few days.\u00a0 We have over twenty teachers &#8211; fellows and mentors &#8211; joining the first cohort from schools in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Derbyshire, who teach science, mathematics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/wiproteacherfellow\/getting-started\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/patusS-1c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":221,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/wiproteacherfellow\/evaluating-the-wipro-programme\/","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":0},"title":"Evaluating the Wipro programme","author":"Emily Perry","date":"September 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Alongside delivering the Wipro programme for Teacher Fellows and mentors, we are carrying out an internal, formative evaluation.\u00a0 This plays a key part in our quality assurance of the programme, by helping us to understand participants' experiences and perceptions, what they learn and enjoy and what we can do better.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":150,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/wiproteacherfellow\/why-participate\/","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":1},"title":"Why participate?","author":"Emily Perry","date":"April 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The twelve Teacher Fellows participating in the programme this year are from varied backgrounds and subject areas.\u00a0 At the start of the programme in January, we asked them which areas of their practice they particularly wanted to develop and why. 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